Photos: PNCA unveils new digs

Students are settling into the newest addition to the downtown Portland campus of the Pacific Northwest College of Arts.

Renovation efforts to turn the historic building that once housed Portland’s main post office into the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design began in 2014.

PNCA worked with project manager Gerding Edlen, Allied Works Architecture and Howard S. Wright to maintain original features of the circa-1919 structure – including a gilded plaster ceiling on the ground-floor – while adding contemporary touches such as an atrium skylight, solar panels and a cable-suspended mezzanine level.